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Nona and Kylie are butt-kicking web mods who are dedicated to curating the finest internet content.

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Not quite a holiday gift… but my fiance and I have been saving and searching and have finally found a house! It’s our gift to each other. The inspection was yesterday (pretty much the final hurdle 5 months after our initial offer on the house) and all went well! Now we can become a crazy cat couple together…

You have no idea. Our current neighbor is a heroin dealer. Though, with our luck, our next neighbors will be too. Crazy part is the neighbor is horrible at hiding his business. Have rolled up on him way too many times while he’s literally saying “Ok, I’ll get you heroin.” or “Sorry, I’m out of that kind of heroin right now”. p.s. I’m not cool enough to use slang like ‘roll up’, I use a wheelchair so I’m actually talking about rolling up :P p.p.s. welcome to DOTD! You’ve been doing a great job

Sure I pointed it out to my mother and said OMFG WANT but she didn’t question my love of bluebottle-eating nudibranchs. And I should also point out I got money for a paddleboard because my family would be like “we’re offering you ridiculous money for a board to stand on on the water and you like the sea slug?” if they knew I was super jazzed for the sea slug necklace.

TBH I think my gifts have gotten better as I’ve gotten older thanks to the internet, because it’s so much easier to find cool/perfect things.

The internet is a horrible, horrible thing. 2000-2003, I think I spent $700 on Bandai robot model kits. Back then, I could have bought a car for that much. Without the internet, I would have never known about them.

Also, did you ever hear about the defunct site Regretsy? It showed terribly odd things people were selling on there.

I got a cold temp sleeping bag, a copy of Mario Kart for the Wii (the ex got all the video games), an Alphonse Mucha calendar, a Grumpy Cat calendar, a bunch of odds and ends from the parentals, one of those camera tripods that wraps around just about anything, and a bottle of good red wine. Awwwwww yeah.

I got myself materials to put in high-up wall shelves (pictured), and materials to build a platform bed for my soon-to-be-delivered new mattress. :D Divorce sucks, but treating yourself to new stuff is kinda nice.

I didn’t get many gifts this year- not that I’m complaining- but I am most pleased with what my brother and his girlfriend gave me. It included this fabulous mask, along with some comics and a blu-ray..

Jmadf

Finally got my first Ferrari, 2 new hats, a cashmere scarf, a new pool, 3 bananas, and a herd of camels.

My post was mostly a bad joke, but since you made me google “jalopnik”, thanks. Please, giab car articles, on this site I’m pretty sure it’ll be damn interesting to read.
P.S: Despite my douchey pic, I don’t own a Ferrari :(

Amongst other things I got a copy of Hyrule Historia and a popcorn machine, so now I’m sitting here obsessing over all things Legend of Zelda while trying not to throw up due to having eaten popcorn for approximately ten people. This is the life.

Jim R.

A gift certificate to this hat store I like. Time to get something nice I can wear with my black work clothes.

I got to pick most of my gifts this year (YAY FOR WISHLISTS!!) so I knew most of what I was getting. The one BIG surprise was from my mother-in-law. She got me a very nice set of ceramic pans! <3 Totally unexpected and very much appreciated.

Other things that got me all excited were:
A new laser printer! (Yeah, boring. But my old ink jet died and this is so friggin' fast!!!)
A beautiful wire-wrapped amethyst tree set in a bed of quartz.
PJs (Mine were starting to fall apart..)
A very cool desk lamp that folds down, AND has usb outlets so you can recharge your phone.